Mysuru :

With the Mysuru district administration deciding to celebrate Tipu birth anniversary tomorrow, various organisations celebrated Tipu Jayanti in a grand manner here this morning.

Members and office-bearers of Rajya Dravida Maha Sabha (RDMS) celebrated Tipu Jayanti by taking out a procession from Meelad Park on Ashoka Road to Thataiah Park near City Bus Stand.

The procession, which passed through Meena Bazaar Road, Mission Hospital Circle, Sawday Road, Govt. Ayurveda Hospital Circle, Sayyaji Rao road and K.R. Circle, culminated at Thataiah Park. The procession later left for Srirangapatna.

RDMS State President Srinivas, Secretary Shanthamma, Legal Advisor Lokesh, Taluk President Syed Saleem, City President Sardar Ahmed, Md. Jaffar and others took part in the procession.

Mysore City Congress Minority Department celebrated Tipu Jayanti at Kolar Bara Imam Shaadi Mahal on Ashoka Road in city by distributing sweets, bursting crackers and taking out bike and auto rickshaw rallies in city.

City Congress President C. Dasegowda, former MLC Muktarunnisa Begum, Corporators Suhail Baig and Rajalakshmi Shivanna, former Corporators Shivanna and Syed Noorulla, former Mysore City Congress Minority Department President Allah Baksh, Secretary of Muslim Girls Orphanage Abdul Azeez Chand, General Secretary of Tanzeem Ahle Sunnath-wo-Jamath Jameel Ahmed Ashrafi, Asif and others took part in the celebrations.

After taking part in the celebrations in city, the members of various organisations left for Srirangapatna to take part in the rally organised by Hazarath Tipu Sultan Wakf Estate Chairman Tanveer Sait at 2 pm today.

City Police wings on vigil in city

Following untoward incidents in Kodagu this morning, the city Police wings such as City Armed Reserve (CAR) Police, Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP), Mounted Police and other Police wings led by City Police Commissioner B. Dayanand, DCPs Dr. H.T. Shekar and N.D. Birje, all ACPs, Inspectors, SIs and staff of all Police Stations in city are patrolling the city to prevent any untoward incidents here.

Tight Police security has been provided in area such as Mandi Mohalla, N.R. Mohalla, Rajivnagar, Shanthinagar, Beedi Colony, Udayagiri, Gandhinagar, Sunnadakeri, Bannimantap, Tilaknagar and Gayatripuram in city. Garuda jeeps and Cheetah vehicles have been pressed into service to keep an eye on mischief mongers.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / March 10th, 2015

Chennai  :

As a poet, Abdul Rahman is special because his poems give a kind of power which could even destroy any establishment,” said DMK chief M Karunanidhi.

“I fist met Rahman in the 1950s. It was at a poetry reading session I first heard his poems. I still read his poems. He questions the order that we are compelled to follow due to various reasons. His poems are very powerful and they give an voice for the voiceless,” said Karunanidhi.

Speaking at a function organized to pay tribute to the veteran Tamil poet, the DMK chief said, “Abdul Rahman is special. What makes him special is the way he handles the subject. He uses satire and irony in a most powerful way,” he said.

Born in Madurai in 1937, Rahman worked as professor of Tamil for 29years at the Islamia college, Vaniambadi. His ‘Aalapanai’, a collection of poetry, won Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil in 2009. Politicians, artists, writers and musicians participated in the event held at Kamaraj Arangam in the city on Tuesday.

Veteran music composer A R Rahman, poet and lyricist Vairamuthu, state BJP president Tamilisai Soundararajan, MDMK chief Vaiko and VCK chief Thirumavalavan were present.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of  India / News Home> City> Chennai / by M.T.Saju, TNN / October 27th, 2015

The Emergency in 1975 has had many gruesome after-effects. But ‘Thadavara Kavithakal’ is one positive outcome of the times.

The anthology, the English translation of which is getting ready to be published soon under the title ‘Poems from the Prison’, consists of poems penned by ten people who had been imprisoned during the emergency for various reasons. It was their endless days in prison that unearthed the poets in most of them.

The anthology in Malayalam was first published in 1977, edited by Civic Chandran, one of the poets, and republished with extensive notes and memoirs in 2010. Some of the poems had been translated and used in various English anthologies over the time.

First time

This is for the first time an attempt was made to translate the anthology completely into English and published as one book.

Freshly translated by noted Malayalam poet K. Satchidanandan, with a foreword by Balachandran Chullikkad, the anthology carries 25 poems by ten poets, most of whom are still alive, while a few like Muhammed Ali and Udayabhanu have bid adieu to this world.

The remaining — M. Somanathan, V. K. Prabhakaran, M. M. Somasekharan, Das (Kuttikrishnan), C. K. Raghunath, Purushothaman, C. K. Abdul Azees and Civic Chandran –- are mostly still active as writers, theoreticians, editors and activists, having moved away from the Maoist ideology that had stirred them in the Seventies.

The poems are on diverse themes. ‘An evening note’ by P. Udayabhanu recalls the turbulent times when revolution was brewing across the country while V.K. Prabhakaran’s ‘The People of my village’ is about the unrest beneath the surface.

However, they are marked by certain recurring symbols such as storm and rain and the spirit of revolution.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> News> Cities> Kozhikode / by Aabha Anoop / Kozhikode – November 04th, 2015